Upcoming Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Transitional Justice for Russia and Accountability in the Age of Impunity	Mon, 20.10.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Inna Berezkina		Transitional Justice for Russia and Accountability in the Age of Impunity Fellows' Colloquium with Inna Berezkina Mon, 20.10.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Inna Berezkina Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Inna Berezkina will explore how societies reckon with unaddressed violence in the absence of formal judgment. Berezkina proposes reframing accountability as a historical force that can foster social repair and resilience even without democratic transition. Read more
Transitional Justice for Russia and Accountability in the Age of Impunity Fellows' Colloquium with Inna Berezkina Mon, 20.10.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Inna Berezkina Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Inna Berezkina will explore how societies reckon with unaddressed violence in the absence of formal judgment. Berezkina proposes reframing accountability as a historical force that can foster social repair and resilience even without democratic transition. Read more
	Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity	Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Rogers Brubaker Ayşe Çağlar	Register here	Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers Brubaker Ayşe Çağlar Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The first lecture analyzes the performative, productive, interactive, and regulative workings of the gender identity category. Read more
Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers Brubaker Ayşe Çağlar Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The first lecture analyzes the performative, productive, interactive, and regulative workings of the gender identity category. Read more
	MQ Talks: Philip Blom in Conversation with Philippe Sands	Wed, 22.10.2025, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Philipp BlomPhilippe Sands	REGISTER HERE	MQ Talks: Philip Blom in Conversation with Philippe Sands International Law in Times of a New World Order Wed, 22.10.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Philipp BlomPhilippe Sands Series: Panels and Discussions What tools and methods exist to hold accountable those responsible for conflicts and to promote international human rights? Historian and journalist Philip Blom will host a discussion with Philippe Sands, who will talk about his latest book, 38 Londres Street (New York: Penguin, 2025). Read more
MQ Talks: Philip Blom in Conversation with Philippe Sands International Law in Times of a New World Order Wed, 22.10.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Philipp BlomPhilippe Sands Series: Panels and Discussions What tools and methods exist to hold accountable those responsible for conflicts and to promote international human rights? Historian and journalist Philip Blom will host a discussion with Philippe Sands, who will talk about his latest book, 38 Londres Street (New York: Penguin, 2025). Read more
	Part II: A Quiet Revolution	Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Rogers BrubakerAna Mijic	Register here	Part II: A Quiet Revolution IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers BrubakerAna Mijic Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The second lecture will identify five intertwined processes that have shaped the “gender identity” category: the depathologization, universalization, vernacularization, legalization, and promotion of the category. Read more
Part II: A Quiet Revolution IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers BrubakerAna Mijic Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The second lecture will identify five intertwined processes that have shaped the “gender identity” category: the depathologization, universalization, vernacularization, legalization, and promotion of the category. Read more
	Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922	Mon, 27.10.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov		Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922 Fellows' Colloquium with Igor Torbakov Mon, 27.10.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This Fellows' Colloquium will demonstrate that, Russian imperial collapse notwithstanding, Constantinople’s allure was still strong enough in Bolshevik Moscow to generate outstanding literary works, artistic production, and geopolitical fantasizing. Russian political imagination during Istanbul’s short ‘Russian moment’ reflected a real multi-sided geopolitical rivalry over Constantinople. Read more
Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922 Fellows' Colloquium with Igor Torbakov Mon, 27.10.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This Fellows' Colloquium will demonstrate that, Russian imperial collapse notwithstanding, Constantinople’s allure was still strong enough in Bolshevik Moscow to generate outstanding literary works, artistic production, and geopolitical fantasizing. Russian political imagination during Istanbul’s short ‘Russian moment’ reflected a real multi-sided geopolitical rivalry over Constantinople. Read more
	Part III: A Decade of Contestation	Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker	Register here	Part III: A Decade of Contestation IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The third lecture will address the questions around controversies on bathroom access, eligibility for women’s sports, pronoun policies, school curricula, and gender medicine for youth as a moral panic. Read more
Part III: A Decade of Contestation IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The third lecture will address the questions around controversies on bathroom access, eligibility for women’s sports, pronoun policies, school curricula, and gender medicine for youth as a moral panic. Read more
	The Myth of Orestes and the Critique of Modernity	Mon, 03.11.2025, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Piotr Augustyniak		The Myth of Orestes and the Critique of Modernity Fellows' Colloquium with Piotr Augustyniak Mon, 03.11.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Piotr Augustyniak Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Piotr Augustyniak will argue that, in political terms, the entry into the sphere of modernity signified the transition from the clan order to the order of the polis, culminating for the first time in the civic society of classical Athens. Read more
The Myth of Orestes and the Critique of Modernity Fellows' Colloquium with Piotr Augustyniak Mon, 03.11.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Piotr Augustyniak Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Piotr Augustyniak will argue that, in political terms, the entry into the sphere of modernity signified the transition from the clan order to the order of the polis, culminating for the first time in the civic society of classical Athens. Read more
	Krieg oder Frieden? Europas Verteidigungspolitik am Prüfstand	Sun, 09.11.2025, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Markus Reisner, Petra Erler, Ursula Plassnik, Petra Stuiber	Ticketkauf über das Burgtheater demnächst	Krieg oder Frieden? Europas Verteidigungspolitik am Prüfstand Europa im Diskurs Sun, 09.11.2025, 11:00 Speakers: Markus Reisner, Petra Erler, Ursula Plassnik, Petra Stuiber Series: Panels and Discussions Europas Sicherheit ist durch Krieg, hybride Angriffe und geopolitische Verschiebungen bedroht und stellt die europäische Verteidigungspolitik auf die Probe. Welche Kosten, Investitionen und Chancen damit verbunden sind, diskutieren wir mit hochkarätigen Gästen. Read more
Krieg oder Frieden? Europas Verteidigungspolitik am Prüfstand Europa im Diskurs Sun, 09.11.2025, 11:00 Speakers: Markus Reisner, Petra Erler, Ursula Plassnik, Petra Stuiber Series: Panels and Discussions Europas Sicherheit ist durch Krieg, hybride Angriffe und geopolitische Verschiebungen bedroht und stellt die europäische Verteidigungspolitik auf die Probe. Welche Kosten, Investitionen und Chancen damit verbunden sind, diskutieren wir mit hochkarätigen Gästen. Read more
	Socialist Yugoslavia and the Global South in the Long 1970s: Exploring the Contradictions of Decolonial Solidarity	Mon, 10.11.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Paul StubbsDino Pasalic		Socialist Yugoslavia and the Global South in the Long 1970s: Exploring the Contradictions of Decolonial Solidarity Fellows' Colloquium with Paul Stubbs Mon, 10.11.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Paul StubbsDino Pasalic Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Paul Stubbs discusses work in progress on his book exploring socialist Yugoslavia’s relations with the Global South during the long 1970s. He focuses on Yugoslavia’s “intermestic” policies in a changing global context, and on its evolving support for decolonial liberation movements, including in Palestine and Southern Africa. Read more
Socialist Yugoslavia and the Global South in the Long 1970s: Exploring the Contradictions of Decolonial Solidarity Fellows' Colloquium with Paul Stubbs Mon, 10.11.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Paul StubbsDino Pasalic Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Paul Stubbs discusses work in progress on his book exploring socialist Yugoslavia’s relations with the Global South during the long 1970s. He focuses on Yugoslavia’s “intermestic” policies in a changing global context, and on its evolving support for decolonial liberation movements, including in Palestine and Southern Africa. Read more
	Flieg, mein Lied	Sat, 15.11.2025, 19:30	Other	Ludger Hagedorn Tanja MaljartschukJuri Andruchowytsch, Maria Weissenböck, Ganna Gryniva, Gerti Drassl	Anmeldung über das ORF RadioKulturhaus	Flieg, mein Lied Tanja Maljartschuk und Juri Andruchowytsch präsentieren die „Ukrainische Bibliothek“ Sat, 15.11.2025, 19:30 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Tanja MaljartschukJuri Andruchowytsch, Maria Weissenböck, Ganna Gryniva, Gerti Drassl Series: Other In der neuen Reihe Ukrainische Bibliothek in deutscher Sprache (Wallstein Verlag) erscheinen erstmals zentrale Werke der ukrainischen Literatur in sorgfältig edierten Übersetzungen und rücken die lange übersehenen Klassiker ins Licht. Tanja Maljartschuk und Juri Andruchowytsch stellen das Projekt vor und sprechen über ihre persönlichen Bezüge, mit den ersten Bänden von Taras Schewtschenko und Lesja Ukrajinka. Read more
Flieg, mein Lied Tanja Maljartschuk und Juri Andruchowytsch präsentieren die „Ukrainische Bibliothek“ Sat, 15.11.2025, 19:30 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Tanja MaljartschukJuri Andruchowytsch, Maria Weissenböck, Ganna Gryniva, Gerti Drassl Series: Other In der neuen Reihe Ukrainische Bibliothek in deutscher Sprache (Wallstein Verlag) erscheinen erstmals zentrale Werke der ukrainischen Literatur in sorgfältig edierten Übersetzungen und rücken die lange übersehenen Klassiker ins Licht. Tanja Maljartschuk und Juri Andruchowytsch stellen das Projekt vor und sprechen über ihre persönlichen Bezüge, mit den ersten Bänden von Taras Schewtschenko und Lesja Ukrajinka. Read more